got it working on my promix card.. thanks man! my fix was to reboot... i also downloaded the wireless and wireless.sh files from your site.. dont know if it was a coincidence or not.. laptop lost power, and came up working!

Can someone point me in the direction of some documentation. Everything I click on leads to this thread. To someone wanting to install (with the changes and differences) reading this makes it reall hard to follow. I got mine up but everytime I reboot I have to manually enter all this.

Can someone point me in the direction of some documentation. Everything I click on leads to this thread. To someone wanting to install (with the changes and differences) reading this makes it reall hard to follow. I got mine up but everytime I reboot I have to manually enter all this.

Documentation for what?
I'm presuming you've installed gentoo (if not then use the install guide)
To get your wireless working:

Code:

emerge wireless-tools

Find out which driver your card uses (google for "<model number> linux" will usually help)
Compile this driver into the kernel along with wireless support.

This should get you to the state where you can get the wireless working using iwconfig/ifconfig commands. That is where wireless-config comes in.
Follow the instructions in the first post (its updated each new version) to get it installed. Edit the config file at /etc/conf.d/wireless and make sure that you follow the instructions displayed after the ebuild has finished.

If you need any more specific help then post again.

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i have one of those intel centrino cards and i'm trying to connect to an SMC Barricade g WLAN router. i am not succeeding. it's not because of the encryption (although i'm sure i'll run into problems there, too) because the same happens with security settings turned off altogether.

i have one of those intel centrino cards and i'm trying to connect to an SMC Barricade g WLAN router. i am not succeeding. it's not because of the encryption (although i'm sure i'll run into problems there, too) because the same happens with security settings turned off altogether.

Try using associate_test_wlan0="quality"

i assume you mean i should put it in /etc/conf.d/wireless. it has no noticeable effect.
is it a problem that i am also hardconnected to the router when i try to get the wlan up?_________________If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today.
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I'm trying to use wireless-config to get my card up and running without much luck. My card is detected by iwconfig and I set up my /etc/conf.d/wireless. However, the card simply isn't working....I see no /etc/init.d/net.ath0. I saw the faq pointed to the docs if you don't have an interface in /etc/init.d/ but I still don't understand how to get this working! Do I need to add

Code:

iwconfig_ath0=( "dhcp" )

To /etc/conf.d/net ? I'm really confused..I tried that and rebooted but it did no good. I still don't have an /etc/init.d/net.ath0.

I'm trying to use wireless-config to get my card up and running without much luck. My card is detected by iwconfig and I set up my /etc/conf.d/wireless. However, the card simply isn't working....I see no /etc/init.d/net.ath0. I saw the faq pointed to the docs if you don't have an
interface in /etc/init.d/ but I still don't understand how to get this working!

* Failed to associate with any preferred access points on ath0
* WEP key is not set for "network" - not connecting
* Couldn't associate with any access points on ath0
* Failed to configure wireless for ath0
* preup ath0 failed

Kind of odd to get an error message like that. I checked and double checked my AP and WEP is enabled. Checked the key too, and it seems to be correct. Almost have it working! _________________The specs on the box said windows 98 or better, so I installed gentoo.

* Failed to associate with any preferred access points on ath0
* WEP key is not set for "network" - not connecting
* Couldn't associate with any access points on ath0
* Failed to configure wireless for ath0
* preup ath0 failed

The MAC address reported is the wireless MAC of the AP.
So if you have a wireless router, it will have different MAC's for ethernet ports (all of them I think) and the wireless.

Thank you, I've learned quite a bit from this experience. You were, of course, right. That was the problem....now I'm having a problem that seems to pop up with alot of other wireless users:

Code:

* Bringing ath0 up...
* ath0 dhcp [ !! ]

I've seen in prior posts that other people with this problem were suggested to disable WEP. I did this, but I'm still getting the same results. So is the cvs version of madwifi fixing this problem for others? I made sure WEP was off and that my DHCP server is functioning. Try other channels?_________________The specs on the box said windows 98 or better, so I installed gentoo.

Again thanks to Uberlord for this HowTo.
Unfortunately when one encounters a problem, it has gotten a bit complex finding the answer somewhere in almost 50 pages.
Not last because the "forums.gentoo.org" search function is quite bad (no search for phrases, only for a list of words and it does not show on which of the 50 pages the search result can be found)
Perhaps I find the time to volunteer making a special homepage with all this stuff on it.

NOW MY PROBLEM:

WLAN works WITHOUT WEP,
but DOESN'T WITH WEP.

("doesn't work" means: everything starts up, but dhcp does not receive anything and a static ip doesn't help either: no pings)

I have an Allnet ALL0192 PCMCIA WLAN card in my PowerBook 17" and I'm using kernel 2.6 (pegasos-dev-sources-2.6.7-r4).

These are my loaded modules (though I don't think this is significant to the problem):

These errors occure WITH AND WITHOUT WEP, but as mentioned, everything (DHCP, pinging, surfing ) works WITHOUT WEP but not WITH.

My questions:
- Why doesn't it work WITH WEP ? And do errors in /var/log/messages have something to do with it ?
- What is the "Error -110 setting multicast list." complaining about ?
- What means "Association Failed (0006)" ? Who is associating ?

Didn't realize you could get dhcpcd output from /var/log/messages. I've tried 5 different channels and still can't get an address from the dhcp server. Works fine when i'm plugged in with an ethernet cable. It also works perfectly when I boot into my wife's windows xp partition.

@vitriol
The CVS version is much better than the portage one. It may fix your DHCP problem

Thanks, that never occured to me I've read most of the 48 (so far) pages on this thread and it seems like there are alot of duplicate questions...maybe someone could set up a more detailed FAQ covering alot of these questions? I am sorry if anything I've asked has been excessively redundant._________________The specs on the box said windows 98 or better, so I installed gentoo.

^^^^^ madwifi cvs is installed. I'm lost...completely out of ideas. I can't stand to not be able to solve a problem like this. argh!_________________The specs on the box said windows 98 or better, so I installed gentoo.